Monday, March 29, 2010

Things continue to move fast on the garden front this spring.Matt finished changing our two 4'x8' raised beds into four 4'x4' beds. These should be much easier to harvest. All he has left to do is put rocks in the last walkway, this keeps them from getting muddy. Its hard to believe we'll be planting our peas outside this week! Actually, its been quite a warm spring, Matt had planned on building a cold frame for lettuce & spinach but we don't need it this year. (If you are wondering about the trash can, that is actually our homemade compost bin. We started it last year & had some beautiful black compost to work into the beds this year.)Indoors the broccoli & jalapenos are both getting their second leaves.Seeds have been started for carnival peppers & three types of tomatoes. Other than brussels sprouts this is the last of the seedling we'll be starting inside as everything else will start from seed outside.Oh, & check out how well the garlic is doing!

Lori - Garlic has to be planted in the fall to harvest in mid-summer. You can just use cloves from the grocery store if they haven't been treated to prevent sprouting.We have these beds & a small herb & garlic garden. We are thinking of putting in two more beds on the other side of the house too but haven't made them yet.